Improvement in book-markers



Ilhrihnl I hnl@ aient @inline EDMUND (BOTTLE, 0F RANDOLPH, MASSACHUSETTS. i

Letters Patent No. 106,785, dated August 30, 1870.

IMPROVEMEN'Jl' IN BOOK-MARKERS.

TherSchedule referred to in'these Letters Patent and making pan: of the same.

To all persons to whom these presents may come Be it known that I, EDMUND COTTLE, ol' Ran'- dolph, of the `county of. Nollolk and Seite of Massn`- chnsetts, have made n. new'nnd useful invention hnving reference to Books; and do hereby declare the -sziine to he fully described in the following specification :md represented'in the accompanying drawing, which represents :i memorandum-book open, and

provided with my invention, the purpose of which is` not only to serve as n, 'mark to note the page nl; which n person may have vleft; oli' reading or writing, but to 'hold down the leaves on one side-of the middle ofthe hook while t person may bek reading the book or writing in ip. v

ln carrying out; my invention, I tix to-one ofthe .covers of the hook A, al', or nenr the outer edge of such cover, a. S'tmpvor hand, B, which maybe either ela-Stic or inelastic, and i1 provideisuch strap, at'. its free end, with a. hook, 0,' which, whelrvused, is to be hooked upon the stitching used in binding the lenves ltogether. f

The 'hund may be elastic, and run through a, slot in the hook, so ns to bring the hook at', the middle ofthe band, in which ense tue halves oi' the bnnd should he folded on one another, and their ends be fastened to the ho0k-cover. .c There 'nlny he such a. hand and n hook or booklnarker to euch of the covers, or toY one of them only.

there the Stitching of lhe hook is not Afavorable for taking the' hook, n thread or wire, a, may be run -through the pack of leaves, near. their junction, and

be secured to thecovers or back of the hook, sothnb, when t-he book is open, such thread or wire will show in manner as ,representcd in the drawing, wherein fthe- Witnesses:

1i. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

